The Senate passed the $410 billion omnibus stimulus package tonight after a week of widespread grandstanding and feigned horror over $7.7 billion in earmarks — which is simply a means of allocating streams of existing funds — split between 95 Senators. And yet here’s John McCain, g...

The 2008 presidential campaigns will long be remembered as historic.  Of course, one of the most remarkable thresholds crossed was the record breaking financial resources raised and spent through the process.  In fact our fund-raising for McCain-Palin 2008 raised over $450 million, by far the most...

We’ll admit, we have some sympathy for the former Republican leadership and George W. Bush with regards to the “John McCain situation.” It was kind of fun for us communists to see John McCain (occasionally, arbitrarily) challenge the Bush administration on a handful of issues over ...

A ridiculous amount of time is being wasted on talking about whether or not certain individuals want Obama to fail. It's an idiotic exercise. Who cares? What difference does it make? Much of the discussion has centered around Rush Limbaugh's statements. Limbaugh is Newsweek's cover boy for the March...

* Much like everything else so far, the Obama administration’s diplomatic efforts are stumbling out of the gates. The administration presented Russia with a reset button, which is cute because a) they mistranslated the word “reset” for “overcharge,” (and do they really ...

I have to agree that it's not accurate to say that John McCain is as bad as Herbert Hoover. He's much worse. And while the Obama administration is certainly infinitely preferable to this kind of cretin, it sure would be nice if their plan to deal with the banking system wasn't to hope that people wi...

I got this off Senator John McCain’s Twitter (yes, he now tweets). Over the last few days, the Arizona lawmaker has been tweeting his version of “The Top Porkiest Projects� in the Omnibus spending bill. Here are science/genetics projects that Sen. McCain consider earmarks or pork-barrel: “$8...

Everyone has been harping incessantly about bipartisanship. But finally that glorious day, when the pols could pull in their claws, has arrived—if they're even half-way serious. It is also a wonderful opportunity for the president to keep one of his campaign promises that does not involve spending...

While campaigning for change, Barack Obama said, “We need earmark reform, and when I’m President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.” But now the President is about to sign a huge 2,697 page spending bill with over 9,000 unnecessary and was...

and, yes, all of the fears of those of us who were talking about a quiet, hidden "coup," were not only justified, but were much worse than we imagined... If history gets this recent era right, future textbooks will have to show that the US narrowly averted a carefully planned but thorough and unmist...